ADF Sues NY School District Over Censorship of Pro-Life Viewpoint

[Christian Zionist]

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ADF Sues NY School District Over Censorship of Pro-Life Viewpoint

By Jim Brown
January 5, 2007


(AgapePress) - One of the largest school districts in upstate New York has joined a growing list of public schools now facing a federal lawsuit over their treatment of pro-life students. A middle school student has sued the Shenendehowa Central School District after allegedly being told to turn his pro-life T-shirt inside out and to stop distributing to his classmates flyers that discussed the dangers of abortion.

Shenendehowa Central is the third U.S. public school district in the last two weeks to be sued by the pro-family legal organization Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) for censoring pro-life students. ADF attorneys filed a complaint against the district and the principal of the Gowana Middle School on behalf of a student who says he was barred from expressing pro-life views during the national Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity, an event organized by the Stand True ministry.

The plaintiff's attorney, Matt Bowman, says students at Gowana Middle School who received the pro-life student's flyers were ordered to return them immediately to administrators to be discarded. But Bowman is highlighting what he sees as a double standard on the school officials' part.

"This school allows literature and T-shirts criticizing the Iraq war and criticizing President Bush," the ADF lawyer points out. Also, he notes, "They have a sex-ed program; and yet this principal shut down every method of pro-life speech because he says students shouldn't be thinking about that."

However, the law is on the student's side -- not the administration's, Bowman insists. He says U.S. courts have clearly stated that if other students are allowed to wear T-shirts and pass out literature on controversial issues outside of class, then Christian and pro-life students should have the same right.

Shenendehowa District officials would be wise to settle the case, the pro-family attorney contends. "We're always willing to work with a school to prevent blatant constitutional violations like this," he says; "And hopefully this school and other schools will decide before litigation happens -- or before litigation has to proceed -- that they're not going to pick and choose which students get to exercise their constitutional rights."

ADF-affiliated attorney Tom Marcelle of Albany, New York, is serving as co-counsel in the Shenendehowa case. He comments, "If 13-year-olds are old enough to participate in sexual education courses, they are certainly old enough to talk about issues such as abortion."

In any case, students have rights under the First Amendment, Marcelle emphasizes. School officials, he asserts, do not have the right to select which constitutionally protected speech is permissible and which is not.

[MarZutra]

I was just reading a book that lists many different organizations that have been infiltrated and now under the guide of the British Fabian Society.  ADL, AJC, CJC, YMCA, United Christian Churches and a whole slew of others.  Doesn't much surprize me about these "Jewish" organizations when they've been undermining Judaism for the past 60 years or more... 

[cjd]

This issue is like when you go past a construction site and look through a hole in the board fence. You get a little glimpse of the start of what is being constructed. Before long a massive building is soring into the sky. Well whats being constructed here is the liberal left indoctrinating school age children to the acceptable agenda. No opposing view points will be tolerated in the schools to damage the strong foundation liberals want kids to have and build on in later life. Conservatives are really missing the mark with this because from what I see in the schools the  indoctrination to the liberal agenda is thorough. Most kids going to school today believe the liberal agenda is the main stream one. Parents are too worn out to buck the system and very little bucking will be tolerated by the school board  before they label a parent as a trouble maker. The system where the board of education decides what is right and wrong needs to be changed. Somehow parents wishes need to be reflected in the curriculum.

[MarZutra]

The British Educational System, like the BBC and the Labor Party, is probably just another branch of the British Fabian Society, of which Tony Blair is a member.  I enjoyed your comment cjd because it is directly comparable to Academia here in Canada.  As a matter of fact, I took your response and sent it to the Minister of Education for my Province to give her some other perspectives aside from the clowns around her.  I see that whatever happens in Britian and America will soon happen to Canada.  This trend has been going on for quite some time.  My friend, retired head of Clinical Psychiatry and Professor from UWO, stated quite accurately "To find a Conservative in today's Canadian Academia is like searching for a diamond in a toilet". 

I must give these socialist bastards a lot of credit, their subversive movements combined with their open lobby/protest groups with their financial, tax free "charity foundations" have really done a good job reaching their socialist agenda: "Ends justifies the means"-Marx.  If I lived in Britian, I'd take a walk down to Highgate Park Cemetery for a nice long urination, or better, atop the grave of Karl Marx. (A man whose life's work literally collapsed the civilized world)